That sounds right to me.
The interpretation I like is that the superposition of states simply gets larger and encompasses the person doing the measuring. The person themselves is then in a superposition, each part believing a certain measurement was recorded.
This is just an interpretation (the "many worlds" theory) -- I don't think it can be tested any more than the fact "God"(s) exists can.
the entire Universe, including everyone in it, is in principle computable by a completely deterministic computer program
.. as long as you start with a piece of fairy cake.
What about deep-frozen pizza? Does the ISS have a microwave?
Apart from the implications this might have for classical electronics, the long-term goal here is to build solid-state quantum computing devices. The phosphorus donor has one lonely electron, and that electron's spin is a good candidate for a qubit. One of the good things about P in Si is the long decoherence times -- T2 times of almost one second have been demonstrated. The phosphorus' nuclear spin of 1/2 stays coherent for hours, if we can find a way to get at it.
Of course, the NIST guys with their ion traps have demonstrated several interacting qubits, but perhaps P in Si chips might be useful as a more stable, more scalable, cheaper or smaller alternative.
Agreed. Their internet sucks too - we switched to ADSL with iinet recently (no Internode available here) and haven't looked back. Optus' upload speed is about 22kbyte/s even with 1Mbyte/s download speeds.
Optus is a good example of how not to treat your customers.
It doesn't have to be a game. Any simulation is fun to create. Especially if it is interactive.
A horizontal flywheel would be totally awesome - no matter how fast you cornered, there would be no "roll".
The kicking and punching stopped only when it became apparent that all the mob was attacking was itself. And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, it was never very clear to anyone what had happened.
--Maskerade, Terry Pratchett
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
--Jingo, Terry Pratchett
that "Truth Happens" video promoting Linux.
Yeah.. surely just gloves with little magnets in them would be more sensible?
I'm pretty sure Google Street View already does some of this. Browsing around, it seems to know where the sides of buildings are and let you zoom in on them.
From what I can see they're not blowing their own trumpet as much as these guys, but it can't be far away that Google Earth will have quite comprehensive 3D models of cities (Tokyo is already amazingly complete, although I don't know if that's an automatic system or not).
What about Google Reader (or any other rss reader) in Expanded Mode? Loads the first paragraph of every story, you press "j" to flick to the next one. There's no network traffic between flicking at all, so it's basically instant (well under 100ms).
I fail to spot the difference, apart from having to pay for the new one. I guess Google could break Reader, but that would be kind of evil.
Whales and flowerpots.
Disappointment is me.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
